Archive - The Developing Dev

Junior (IC3) to Staff (IC6) via Job Hopping

Learnings from Zach Wilson

Jul 26, 2024 •

New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King

On Speed, Being Bold, and Depositing Into the “Favor Bank”

Dec 13, 2024 •

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28 Year Old Staff Engineer @ Google

Advice for his younger self, imposter syndrome, saying no to bad projects

Nov 22, 2024 •

41:59

What You Work On >> How Hard You Work

Last week, I interviewed a friend who got to Staff (IC6) at Google by 28 in an unusual way.

Oct 25, 2024 •

When Job Hopping Doesn't Make Sense

Early vs late career strategy

Jan 24 •

A New Era of Writing Code

Sep 20, 2024 •

Why Engineers Need To Write

I hated writing in high school.

Mar 24, 2023 •

Amazon Principal Engineer On Layoffs, Interviewing & Career Growth | Steve Huynh

Why most interview prep advice is garbage, becoming a Principal Eng at Amazon, and Amazon's performance-based culture

Mar 1 •

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1:18:48

From Microsoft Intern to Meta Staff Engineer: Raviraj Achar

Overcoming imposter syndrome and learning to lead

Nov 3, 2023 •

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6 Software Engineering Templates I Wish I Had Sooner

Design docs, postmortems and more

Oct 27, 2023 •

Career Cold Start Algorithm, Landing Code Fast

Feb 2, 2024 •

Everything I Know About Shipping Code Faster

Faster Review, Flow State, Optimizing Your Workflow

Jan 10 •

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